Pidzu Pennu (the Rain-god)
Kondh · deity · Kondh traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Pidzu Pennu is the rain-god of the Kondh, named by E. B. Tylor (drawing on Macpherson's account) among the group of six great gods who follow Bura Pennu and Tari Pennu in the divine hierarchy: the Rain-god, the goddess of first-fruits, the god of increase, the god of hunting, the iron war-god, and the god of boundaries. For an agricultural people of the Eastern Ghats dependent on the monsoon, the rain-god held an important practical place in cult, though Pidzu Pennu is less fully described in the sources than the supreme pair or the war-god Loha Pennu. He is reckoned, with the other second-rank gods, an offspring of the Sun-god and the Earth-goddess.
Parentage
Domains
- rain and weather
Powers
- to send and withhold the rain
Sources
- Pidzu Pennu is the Rain-god of the Kondh, one of the six second-rank deities descended from Bura Pennu and Tari Pennu.: E. B. Tylor, Primitive Culture, vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1871), ch. 17. (secondary); S. Charteris Macpherson (ed. William Macpherson), Memorials of Service in India (London: John Murray, 1865). (secondary)